Larry Wall
Larry Wall
Larry Wall is a computer programmer and author, most widely known as the creator of the Perl programming language...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 March 1949
CountryCanada
maps hackers diverse
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
problem solve
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
world expanding perl
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
realizing modern posts
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
fighting sake argument
For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
want satisfied
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
want development goofing-off
I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
bored boring call-me
Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
responsibility choices made
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
routine definitions would-be
As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
jobs may pleasant-day
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
silly purpose silly-things
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
historical brain way
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
white house agents
Even the White House has a press agent.